The term open source broadly describes a significant movement within the software industry that embraces peer-reviewed shared development, minimal legal restrictions with no license fees, and the joint stewardship of openly published technology standards. Workmode has been an open source supporter since the company was founded in 1998. The following is a brief listing of the most important open source tools we routinely use.

WEB SERVER   Apache holds the dominant worldwide market share as the most advanced and reliable web server available today, and powers sites like Google and Yahoo. Apache is three times more popular than its leading web server rival, Microsoft.

DATABASE   MySQL, with the fastest growing user base, is fast approaching a majority market share among software developers, leaving its proprietary competitors — Microsoft and Oracle — far behind.

APPLICATION LANGUAGE   PHP, a general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development, has grown over the past 10 years to become the dominant application environment for web-based coding.

BROWSER   Firefox, with over 100 million downloads, is the most advanced browser anywhere. Although we build our web applications to be compatible with all browsers, we optimize around Firefox to insure 100% standards compliance and worldwide usability.